MOC: [[Scientific Breakthrough]] Source: [[Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, & Other Pioneers Teach a Critical Lesson About the Future of AI]] *** For technological progress to become mainstream and impact everyone's life, decades to centuries are often necessary. We have to go through an entire innovation cycle: 1. Discovery 2. Industrialization: turning innovation into General Purpose Technology (GPT) 3. Wide adoption among the public 4. Cultural change Questions: - How and when will AI reach phase 3 and 4? - WIll the timeframe required for an entire iteration cycle shrink exponentially as more progress happens? ![[AI Innovation Cycle]] ![[Studying history]]